A little while ago I posted up some thoughts I had about the war in Iraq. These thoughts did not come in a vacuum. At the time of the invasion I read several books on the morality of war. At the time of compiling this article had just read James Turner Johnson’s works on the […]
Entries Tagged as 'Ethics'
More on Iraq and the Just War Theory
October 11th, 2007 11 Comments
Tags: George Bush · Iraq · Saddam Hussein · US Politics · War Ethics
Published
October 10th, 2007 Comments Off on Published
This morning I received word that my article Abortion and Capital Punishment : No Contradiction, will be published in one of the next 3-4 issues of Think. I would like to thank Perfect Man whose comments motivated me to submit this section of my thesis for publication.
Tags: Abortion · Feticide · Published · Think Magazine
Why Blaming the Ref is Not Welfarism
October 9th, 2007 1 Comment
I am not a sports commentator, and would not consider myself any expert on the question. Like many New Zealanders I love rugby, I played it as a child and at high school. Recently I played a game at the College I teach at and remember the thrill of breaking three tackles and later scoring […]
Viability
October 2nd, 2007 4 Comments
A common argument claims that a fetus is not a human being until it is capable of surviving independently of another individual. Prior to this period, it does not have an independent existence from its mother; hence killing it is not homicide. This position is common in many legal and ethical arguments about the morality […]
Tags: Abortion · David Oderberg · Ethics · Feticide · Susan Sherwin · Viability
Bigotry is Tolerance: Homophobia as Orwellian Double-Speak
September 19th, 2007 5 Comments
Kiwiblog has some discussion on the recent mix up between Gordon Copeland and Destiny Church. Predictably respondents in the comments section denounce Destiny as hate filled homophobic bigots. This of course nothing new this charge is frequently bandied about in the media whenever a theological based objection to homosexual conduct is raised. Now don’t get […]
Tags: Bad Reasoning · Ethics · Homosexual Conduct
9/11
September 11th, 2007 19 Comments
Today in New Zealand the date is the 11th of September, this date marks the anniversary of a terrible crime, an event where planes were used to incinerate and kill thousands of innocent civilians in order to strike terror into the heart of the local population. Those reading this will suspect that I am talking […]
Tags: Bin Laden · Darmstadt · George Bush · Hitler · Stalin · Terrorism · War Ethics · Winston Churchill
Iraq and the Just War Theory: Why I choose not to support the anti-war movement.
August 21st, 2007 3 Comments
I found this last night, I wrote it at the beginning of the US invasion in 2003 at that time I was opposed to the invasion of Iraq and was considering joining the anti-war movement in Dunedin. I posted it up on a newsgroup to get some answers from peace activists. I have edited it […]
Tags: George Bush · Saddam Hussein · War Ethics
A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
